b. 1824, Marseille, FR
d. 1886, Marseille, FR

Biography

Adolphe Monticelli (*1824 Marseille FR | †1886 Marseille FR) was portrayed by contemporaries as an eccentric man who kept himself aloof from the rest of the world, always dressed in black with a felt hat and a large beard reaching to his chest. His work defies categorization into any one genre of his time and would prove as a crucial inspiration to later artists such as Van Gogh and Cézanne.

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Selected exhibitions

1908, Exposition Rétrospective d’oeuvres d’Adolphe Monticelli, Société du Salon d’Automne, Paris

1942, Exposition Monticelli, Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris

1947, Monticelli. Période de Marseille 1871-1885, Charles J. Garibaldi, Marseille

1953, Monticelli et le Baroque provençal, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris

1966, Monticelli‘, Kunsthalle, Hambourg

1978-79, Monticelli, His Contemporaries, His Influence, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Amsterdam

1986-87, Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886), Centre de la Vielle Charité, Marseille

2000, Monticelli, 1824-1886, Musée Yves Brayer

2009, Van Gogh Monticelli, Centre de la vieille charité, Marseille